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Engineering Manager at FreeAgent. Was kids book publishing. BookPenPals + engineeringyourstory.com + undiscoveredvoices.com. She/her. Do-gooder. kidlituk_intro feed: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7…

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
let us not forget
Linus from the Peanunts comic strip shouting, "If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
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Undiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Excellent update on all things @uvcompetition.bsky.social from committee deputy chair @maggiewomersley.bsky.social in the latest issue of @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Words and Pictures including: 👉 Meet the judges 👉 Masterclass details 👉 Info on limited FREE places tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26
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UNDISCOVERED VOICES Meet the Judges
Words and Pictures is the online magazine of SCBWI British Isles.
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.” Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now! booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...
Graphic showing the five collections shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2025, CLPE Children's Poetry Award. They are:
Wise Up! Wise Down! by John Agard and JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, Walker Books 
Let Sleeping Cats Lie, Brian Bilston, Macmillan 
Colossal Words for Kids by Colette Hiller, illustrated by Tor Freeman, Frances Lincoln
Big Red Dragon by Jane Newberry, illustrated by Carolina Rabei, Otter-Barry Books 
We Are Family by Oliver Skyes, illustrated by Ian Morris, Otter-Barry Books
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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It's now publicly live. So if you're a writer of any kind and are not a right wing loony, please sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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An Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK Writers
The UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025 was the result of a coordinated and privately funded attack on the human rights and dignity of trans and non-binary people in the UK. We call upon our in...
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Straight/cis friends - the best time to actually get your skin in the game might have been in the past, but the second best time is now.
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Jonathan ‘the Edunaut’ Nalder @jnxyz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
And uplifting post for my #EduSky and #EduSkayAU friends >> www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-ea...
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3 teens invented a salt-powered refrigerator that doesn't need electricity. They're building 200 of them for hospitals to use.
The Thermavault refrigeration unit can keep vaccines cool with a reusable salt solution. The teens who built it plan to test it at 120 hospitals.
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Cassie 🤍 @cassiecbrown.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Orwell’s fairy tale tells the story of a farm’s rebellion against the tyranny of humans only to find themselves under a new totalitarian regime. It lays out the use of fear, propaganda, lies, and even hope as tools of oppression. Read about tyranny, it is critical now more than ever. #booksky
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
So it's been a bit of a binbag of a week... BUT "Fight Like A Girl 2", feminist anthology featuring three trans authors, is a finalist in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards announced this evening, and I'm delighted for all my authors. You deserve this, all of you ♡ wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
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Fight Like A Girl – Volume 2
ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-913892-84-5 EPUB: 978-1-913892-82-1 MOBI: 978-1-913892-83-8
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Go me and my skills. I’ve made a #UKKidLit starter pack for anyone looking to find the kids book chat community on here. Hope it helps. #KidsBooks #KidLitUK #BookChat go.bsky.app/LEQd4SR
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Harry Woodgate @harrywoodgate.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️‍⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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An Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK Writers
NOTE: THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT TO PRESS AND RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ON TUESDAY - UNTIL THEN, PLEASE ONLY SHARE WITH SMALL GROUPS AND TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS. The UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/04/2025
If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
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Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us. We have to save us. And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators
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An Open Letter to My Fellow Book Creators — Pretty Ok Maggie
Inside me there are two wolves: the one that understands that the best activism happens behind closed doors and that everyone does what they can and that not everyone can be asked to do the same thing...
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Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here. So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
A hand holding up a stack of books in front of blurry bookshelves. The books are, from top to bottom:

THE STRANGEWORLDS TRAVEL AGENCY by LD Lapinski
VIVI CONWAY AND THE HAUNTED QUEST by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
THE OTHERWOODS by Justine Pucella Winans
SIR CALLIE AND THE WITCH'S WAR by Esme Symes-Smith
THIS IS OUR RAINBOW: 16 STORIES ABOUT HER, HIM, THEM, AND US edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby
ACCIDENTAL DEMONS by Clare Edge
A SONG FOR YOU AND I by K. O'Neill
THE OJJA-WOJJA by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Such a great initiative! I would give my OWN books to my 10 year old self – I loved #historicalbooks, #fantasy and #adventurestories and mine are all three! I wrote them for my 10 year old self AND my own kids because books like these with children of colour did not exist for far too long. #kidlituk
The covers of TheDestinyofMinouMoonshine and #TheVoyageofSamSingh both published by Zephyr/Bloomsbury UK.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We see you. We stand with you.
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Rashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It’s dangerous to think that what happens across the ocean can’t happen here. It can. It does. It has already started.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer. The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books. Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy. The position is available straight away.
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Sara Grant @authorsaragrant.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In June @Writers_Artists will publish my first non-fiction book – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. For details & to pre-order at a 10% discount: UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu… US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu���
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Rashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! I’m a neurodivergent UK children’s author who thinks and talks too much and writes a mix of picture books, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Looking forward to connecting with people who make and love books! #KidsBooksUK
Photo of smiling children’s author Rashmi Sirdeshpande at her writing desk with a bookcase full of books behind her. Photo of Rashmi Sirdeshpande’s books. The collection includes picture books illustrated by Diane Ewen, Rikin Parekh and Jojo Clinch, nonfiction illustrated by Annabel Tempest, Adam Hayes and Jason Lyon, a story anthology illustrated by Sarah McIntyre and poetry anthologies illustrated by Chris Riddell.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Same with Irish surnames that have an apostrophe
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 25/11/2023
UPDATED: My Bluesky Starter Thread. Newest version can always be accessed via debbieohi.link/starter (link in my profile bio, too). Feel free to share with anyone who needs it! My take on social media My Bluesky lists Beginner tips Starter thread for educators & librarians cont'd 👇🏼
Text for this header image reads: "Starter Thread for Bluesky newbies, by Debbie Ridpath Ohi (@DebbieOhi.com)." Illustration shows figure holding up pointer in one hand, hugging a book in the other hand. A small pink heart float's above the smiling face.
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Sebastian Yūe 💜🧡 @sebastianyue.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Hey, freelancers: it's time to raise your rates for 2024. You've gained another year of experience and you deserve to be paid for it.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Hello. @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social has sent me some dosh, so I can send someone on Bluesky, the book of their choice. It's "Buy a Stranger aBook" evening, so if there's a book you want, get i touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Help! Trying to remember the title of a children’s book I read back in the day. It involves kids on holiday in big old house, legends of dragons (or “worms”), finding old midwinter Mummers play costumes, and eventually the dragon revealed as an ancient earthwork in the landscape by snow. Any ideas?
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 02/12/2023
And this one. (I will always cry over this song. Always.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8en...
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"Rainbow Connection" with Kermit the Frog, Choir! Choir! Choir!, and New Yorkers at Lincoln Center
This past October, Kermit the Frog and Choir! Choir! Choir! helped us to celebrate the new David Geffen Hall with a special sing-along performance of "Rainbo...
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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
@nosycrow.bsky.social is here.....!!!!! #ukkidlit #kidlituk
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Ten years ago, World Fantasy Con was held at a wheelchair-inaccessible hotel in Brighton, UK. So I couldn't attend. In 2025, World Fantasy Con will return to this hotel, the Doubletree by Hilton Metropole in Brighton, UK. It's still inaccessible.
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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 27/11/2023
If you are still looking for a unique gift for the holiday season, then perhaps one of my dataviz / data art Giclee prints might be of interest ^_^ From visualizing π, to revealing cultural constellation diversity, star maps, butterflies, spirographs & more ✨ 👉 shop.visualcinnamon.com
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
I’m off to a doctors appt and after last night we had only 1 customer (a normal Fri would bring in €250-500) So I’m calling it and closing the rest of the day. There’s no rent relief for fascist riots so if you’re wisely staying home maybe consider littledeercomics.ie
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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Wonderful National Book Awards speech by Oprah Winfrey youtu.be/YOQjU59punY?...
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2023 National Book Awards Ceremony - Oprah Winfrey
The 74th National Book Awards Ceremony was broadcast on November 15, 2023 at 8:00pm ET. Hosted by LeVar Burton, and featuring special guest Oprah Winfrey.The...
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 18/11/2023
The final scientist featured in the Spotlight Science series with Enable Science is Amie Sankoh. She researches communication between plant cells to tackle viral plant diseases. See and download the full series of posters here: bit.ly/SpotlightSci
Spotlight Science series graphic on Amie Sankoh and her work tackling viral plant diseases. Full alt-text is available in a downloadable text file at the provided link.
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
I love this! Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma has developed a way to 3D print with wool, esp coarse European wool that isn't good for anything else. The resulting items or blocks could be used as insulation or to make furniture instead of synthetic materials. www.dezeen.com/2023/11/17/c...
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Christien Meindertsma invents technique for 3D printing with wool
Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma has developed a robot that can build three-dimensional volumes out of wool.
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saramoohead @saramoohead.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Fascinating article, revealing the cost of "free" when it comes to messaging.
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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 18/09/2023
My first post ✨ Here are the rainbow science pin badges I design. I donate all the profit to the AKT, who help homeless LGBTQ+ people. So far the pins have raised £13,492. Please share ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩵🤍🩷 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Dozens of rainbow coloured pins stuck to a purple wall. The pins have science designs like test tubes and dns.
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
This is one of the most beautiful and moving music interviews I’ve read. I don’t know how to describe how it touched me, but it was just a really beautifully honest look at the relationship between art and artist
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Book Cover of the Day:
Hauntings, Tales of the Supernatural Edited by Henry Mazzeo, Drawings by Edward Gorey. Surrounded by illustrations of ghosts and ghostly things.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 09/11/2023
Fancy a free writer's retreat in Dorset with a fee plus travel? The Bridport Prize have got 2 on offer for working class and/ or LGBTQIA+ writers, unpublished & self published authors or published writers of individual stories. Please share - closing date is 13th!! More details on their website.
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Steve May @stevemaythe1st.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
What is Steve? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6733...
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Northern Lights: What is Steve and why is it different to an aurora borealis?
The rare phenomenon illuminates skies across the north-east of England and parts of Scotland.
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John Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
#kidlit friends, if like me you're enjoying the current BBC #Shakespeare season, a prompt that my #picturebook with Jane Sutcliffe 'Wills Words' is still available on order & from Charlesbridge in the US. The Guardian ran a showcase when it was released: www.theguardian.com/childrens-bo... #kidlitUK
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How William Shakespeare changed the way you talk – in pictures
Jane Sutcliffe and John Shelley tell us about their book Will’s Words, which celebrates the massive impact The Bard has on the way we talk today
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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
It’s time! The Bert's Books Secret Santa. Sign up by 30th November, and pick a book you'd like to gift to someone else. I'll work out the best person to send that book to - and in return you'll get a book to unwrap too! bertsbooks.co.uk/secret-santa
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岡田和香 Wakou Okada @w-okada.com · 02/11/2023
Happy #KidlitArtPostcard day! My name is Wakou Okada, and I am a book illustrator based in Japan. I like fantasy and enjoy telling stories with my art. I’m currently looking for work, especially opportunities for kidlit! website: www.w-okada.com mail: info@w-okada.com #kidlitart #illustration
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 02/11/2023
It's that time of year for campfires! Anybody make s'mores yet?? 🔥 Campfire washi tape and stationery set in my shop ~ breelundberg.bigcartel.com
Photo of washi tape rolls with warm Autumn colors and a repeating pattern of cute little fox and bear characters making s'mores over a campfire.Photo of a letter set of five note paper pages with warm Autumn colors and cute fox and bear characters making s'mores over a campfire, a roll of matching washi tape, and two yellow envelopes.
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